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We consider the problem setting of prediction with expert advice with possibly heavy-tailed losses, i.e. the only assumption on the losses is an upper bound on their second moments, denoted by $\theta$. We develop adaptive algorithms that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Antoine Moulin , Emmanuel Esposito , Dirk van der Hoeven

We study the problem of online non-stochastic control (ONC), which is the control of a linear system under adversarial disturbances and adversarial cost functions, with the aim of minimizing the total cost incurred. A recent line of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Vijeth Hebbar , Spencer Hutchinson , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Cédric Langbort

We consider the problem of the Zinkevich (2003)-style dynamic regret minimization in online learning with exp-concave losses. We show that whenever improper learning is allowed, a Strongly Adaptive online learner achieves the dynamic regret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Dheeraj Baby , Yu-Xiang Wang

We study the well-motivated problem of online distribution shift in which the data arrive in batches and the distribution of each batch can change arbitrarily over time. Since the shifts can be large or small, abrupt or gradual, the length…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Dheeraj Baby , Boran Han , Shuai Zhang , Cuixiong Hu , Yuyang Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang

In this paper, we study a special bandit setting of online stochastic linear optimization, where only one-bit of information is revealed to the learner at each round. This problem has found many applications including online advertisement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou

We introduce new algorithms and convergence guarantees for privacy-preserving non-convex Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) on smooth $d$-dimensional objectives. We develop an improved sensitivity analysis of stochastic gradient descent on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Hoang Tran , Ashok Cutkosky

We consider the setting of online convex optimization with adversarial time-varying constraints in which actions must be feasible w.r.t. a fixed constraint set, and are also required on average to approximately satisfy additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Dan Garber , Ben Kretzu

Smoothed online combinatorial optimization considers a learner who repeatedly chooses a combinatorial decision to minimize an unknown changing cost function with a penalty on switching decisions in consecutive rounds. We study smoothed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kai Wang , Zhao Song , Georgios Theocharous , Sridhar Mahadevan

In this paper, we revisit the problem of private stochastic convex optimization. We propose an algorithm based on noisy mirror descent, which achieves optimal rates both in terms of statistical complexity and number of queries to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Raman Arora , Teodor V. Marinov , Enayat Ullah

We study the problem of online learning and online regret minimization when samples are drawn from a general unknown non-stationary process. We introduce the concept of a dynamic changing process with cost $K$, where the conditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Changlong Wu , Ananth Grama , Wojciech Szpankowski

In this paper, we consider the problem of preserving privacy in the online learning setting. We study the problem in the online convex programming (OCP) framework---a popular online learning setting with several interesting theoretical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Prateek Jain , Pravesh Kothari , Abhradeep Thakurta

We study private stochastic convex optimization (SCO) under user-level differential privacy (DP) constraints. In this setting, there are $n$ users (e.g., cell phones), each possessing $m$ data items (e.g., text messages), and we need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Andrew Lowy , Daogao Liu , Hilal Asi

The regret bound of dynamic online learning algorithms is often expressed in terms of the variation in the function sequence ($V_T$) and/or the path-length of the minimizer sequence after $T$ rounds. For strongly convex and smooth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Ting-Jui Chang , Shahin Shahrampour

We introduce an online convex optimization algorithm which utilizes projected subgradient descent with optimal adaptive learning rates. Our method provides second-order minimax-optimal dynamic regret guarantee (i.e. dependent on the sum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Hakan Gokcesu , Suleyman S. Kozat

This paper considers unconstrained convex optimization problems with time-varying objective functions. We propose algorithms with a discrete time-sampling scheme to find and track the solution trajectory based on prediction and correction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Andrea Simonetto , Aryan Mokhtari , Alec Koppel , Geert Leus , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper considers the distributed online bandit optimization problem with nonconvex loss functions over a time-varying digraph. This problem can be viewed as a repeated game between a group of online players and an adversary. At each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Youqing Hua , Shuai Liu , Yiguang Hong , Karl Henrik Johansson , Guangchen Wang

We consider online convex optimization with a zero-order oracle feedback. In particular, the decision maker does not know the explicit representation of the time-varying cost functions, or their gradients. At each time step, she observes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour

A well-studied generalization of the standard online convex optimization (OCO) is constrained online convex optimization (COCO). In COCO, on every round, a convex cost function and a convex constraint function are revealed to the learner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Abhishek Sinha , Rahul Vaze

Differentially private (DP) stochastic convex optimization (SCO) is ubiquitous in trustworthy machine learning algorithm design. This paper studies the DP-SCO problem with streaming data sampled from a distribution and arrives sequentially.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Yuxuan Han , Zhicong Liang , Zhipeng Liang , Yang Wang , Yuan Yao , Jiheng Zhang

We consider the online sparse linear regression problem, which is the problem of sequentially making predictions observing only a limited number of features in each round, to minimize regret with respect to the best sparse linear regressor,…

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